Yao-Ying Lai
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yao-Ying Lai is involved.
Article
2023 The time-course of contextual modulation for underspecified meaning: An eye-movement study The Mental Lexicon 18:1, pp. 41–93 | Article
Sentences like (1) “The singer began the album” are ambiguous between an agentive reading (The singer began recording/playing/etc. the album) and a constitutive reading (The singer’s song was the first track). The ambiguity is rooted in the meaning specification of the aspectual-verb class,… read more